Tasty Tacos' Lightning Spear Tactician

BUILD BUFFED FOR 0.5.

- The new delirium anoint Storms Rebuke is a massive buff (20% increased damage taken for enemies from all our damage).

OTHER KEY CHANGES

- There are some nerfs to energy shield recharge, but buffs to deflect. Recommended to lean more into deflect as defensive layer next league.

- The changes to crafting will make crafting items with essences more difficult, across the board. This affects all builds, but in this case it's the spear. However, we don't know yet what other crafting methods will become available, so it's hard to say exactly what effect the new league crafting methods will have.

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This build unleashes the true power of Lightning Spear by using a unique tech from the Tactician ascendancy to provide Frenzy Charges on-hit, enabling Lightning Spear to be used in an almost permanently empowered form.

The Frenzy charge generation tech comes from pinning enemies with Right Where We Want Them, using the Eroding Chains notable to break armour, generating endurance charge on armour break with Armour Break III, and converting endurance to frenzy charges with the Resonance keystone.

Although Tactician doesn't have damage built into the ascendancy, we leverage the halved aura cost from A Solid Plan and extra spirit from offhand sceptre to stack some very powerful damage auras: Trinity, Eternal Rage, Berserk, and Charge Regulation. This provides a whopping 150% more damage, 40% increased skill speed and 25% more crit chance.

For single target we use explosive spear, which when used with the above buffs has a massive amount of damage in a single detonation. To get Trinity stacked for the single target we use Storm Lance with Embitter.

Although Resonance requires some travel from the Rage nodes, the area in-between is filled with great notables for this build. In the non crit version, Savagery and Frenetic both give us extra frenzy charges with fantastic spend bonuses. Pin and Run gives us 5% extra movement speed for free, and there's lots more movement speed nodes like Escape Velocity conveniently located in the area. Fearful Paralysis Vile Wounds, Blinding Strike, and Concussive Attack are all great damage nodes. And in the crit version, Resonance is conveniently placed right next to a big cluster of crit nodes including True Strike and For the Jugular.

We use an offhand sceptre for more spirit and damage. Sacred Flame is the preferred choice, although lower level versions of the build can also use Guiding Palm of the Mind or even a basic rare sceptre.

All in all the build is very fast, very smooth and great for lategame map blasting, with the downside of slightly less boss damage than other meta builds more than offset by the upsides of very fast map clearing and unique, satisfying playstyle.

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